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This week 23 years ago

Nuclear cruise missiles

In December, the first cruise missiles in Europe will take up their positions inside protective concrete bunkers at Greenham Common air base near Newbury in Berkshire, UK. By 1988, the United States air force plans to have 464 cruise missiles based in Europe, 160 of them in Britain&colon; 96 at Greenham Common and 64 at Molesworth in Cambridgeshire. If war in Europe seems likely, trucks carrying four missiles each will emerge from their bunkers and disperse around southern Britain to protect the arsenal from attack.

The coming weekend will see a plethora of demonstrations across Britain against …